City Lights Bookstransfers@onixsuite.com20150803engCOM.ONIXSUITE.97808728626780301City Lights Books020872862674039780872862678159780872862678BC01VeilsShort Stories01GCOI872861008546501A01Nahid RachlinRachlin, NahidNahidRachlinNahid Rachlin is the Iranian-American author of the novels <em>Foreigner</em>, <em>The Hearts Desire</em>, <em>Married to a Stranger</em> and the short story collection <em>Veils</em>. She teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.<a onclick="CSAction(new Array(/*CMP*/'C03C62351'));return CSClickReturn();" csclick="C03C62351" href="http://www.nahidrachlin.com/"></a>06http://www.nahidrachlin.com/01eng180001800303<P>The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single narrative: some residents leave as soon as they can, others can live nowhere else. The men and women in these spare and sensuous narratives who are caught in the confusing whirl of changing cultures sometimes meet with failure but more often transcend difficult circumstances to gain deeper self-knowledge.</P>02The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single...08“It is particularly exciting... to encounter Nahid Rachlin's Veils, a collection of short stories . . . suggestive in intriguing rather than exasperating ways.”LA Reader04037201http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100854650/images/9780872862678L.jpg07037201http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100854650/images/9780872862678S.jpg080201http://www.citylights.com/resources/persons/4841.gif02http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100854650City Lights Publishers01City Lights Publishers041992050108454gr0816oz